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Background
Project Overview:

• COOPI, in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) and funded by the Mastercard Foundation, is in its 4th year of implemention on a 5-year project to strengthen agricultural value chains (sorghum, millet, soybean, groundnut, horticulture) and create 28,000 sustainable jobs (70% young women, 30% young men) between 2025 – 2026 across six LGAs of Yobe State.
• The project integrates climate-smart agriculture, enterprise development, and market linkages, with a focus on gender equity, youth employability, resilience to climate shocks/conflict, and private-sector engagement.

Position Overview:

• The Community Outsourced Workers will support field implementation, monitoring, and community engagement in Yunusari LGAs.

Key Responsibilities:
Community Mobilization & Sensitization:

• Mobilize and sensitize targeted project participants (men, women and, youth) across all LGAs.
• Facilitate community feedback mechanisms to enhance program responsiveness
• Support targeting activities in their assigned LGAs

Field Monitoring & Activity Implementation:

• Monitor project activities at the field level in assigned LGAs.
• Conduct regular field visits to verify activity implementation and document challenges/successes.
• Provide timely weekly updates on monitored activities, including community feedback/complaints.

Stakeholder Engagement & Coordination:

• Liaise with project stakeholders (Project Management Committees, Technical Committees, traditional leaders, LGA authorities) and provide project updates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of activities in communities.

Capacity Building & Linkages:

• Link smallholder farmers to contracting companies and markets within and outside the state.
• Support capacity-building sessions on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).

Data Collection, Reporting & Documentation:

• Conduct follow-ups with project participants to track progress and challenges.
• Scan/upload Means of Verification (MoVs) and maintain participant databases.
• Prepare weekly/monthly reports and contribute to donor progress updates.

Communications Support:

• Identify and document human-interest stories from project participants monthly.
• Share success stories with the Communications Expert for development.

Required Qualifications

• Mandatory:
  • Indigene of the project LGAs (proof via indigene letter).
  • Minimum qualification: ND, NCE, or BSc in Agriculture, Social Sciences, or related fields.
  • Ability to travel frequently across assigned LGAs.
• Preferred:
  • Computer literacy (certificate is an added advantage).
  • Fluency in local languages (Hausa/Kanuri).
  • Experience in data collection, community mobilization, M&E, or agri-development.
• Desired Experience: Diploma in Agriculture and a minimum of two years experience in the field.

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Job Description

• The Nutrition Assistant will be responsible for planning and implementation of nutrition-specific activities under the food security and nutrition operation area in Yobe focusing on IDPs and vulnerable host communities.
• He will ensure comprehensive mobilization of the community for nutrition screening of children under five, forming and monitoring support groups, and comprehensive SBCC/IYCF training.

Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Nutrition Officer and in collaboration with the Project Managers, Nutrition Team Lead, and other collaborators of the projects and of the Base, they will:

• Perform screening of the nutritional status of children under two in their designated locations and refer MAM/SAM cases to health/CMAM centers
• Represent COOPI at the community level and maintain active engagement with community structures.
• Ensure collaboration with other partners, actors, and community gateways at the LGA level
• Ensure liaison with existing community structures, (groups and individuals, women groups, religious leaders where possible.
• Maintain good working relationships with health facilities in the LGA so as to facilitate access to health services for Beneficiaries when the need arises.
• Provide training on nutrition (IYCF) and hygiene practices
• Referral of all malnourished children to appropriate nutrition centers for onward management.
• Report any problems promptly to the Nutrition Officer
• Maintain an accurate register of beneficiaries receiving top-ups for nutrition.
• Ensure that nutrition is integrated into other Primary Health care services.
• Ensure that pregnant women and children are properly validated or verified during admission
• Ensure that top-ups received by households in CBT or GFA are directed toward the consumption of nutritious food by children below two years. Through unrelenting sensitization and re-sensitization.
• Conduct cooking demonstrations as a key SBCC strategy for the delivery of key messages on nutrition and hygiene.
• Train Lead mothers/fathers and women in SBCC strategic groups (e.g. Father to father, mother to mother support groups) on family MUAC screening.
• Lead Community Mobilizers in Mass MUAC Screening
• Submit weekly nutrition and health reports to the Nutrition Officer.
• Work with program teams to ensure COOPI information on program activities is shared within LGAs and provide beneficiary feedback in line with relevant guidelines and frameworks
• Collaborate with government and humanitarian partners to ensure the smooth sharing of information in consultation with the Nutrition officer, Nutrition Team Lead/Deputy Project Manager

Code of Conduct and associated policies:

• Treat beneficiaries with dignity and apply COOPI’s Code of Ethics and Conduct, the UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in the field, including sensitizing Field Monitors and vendors/agents on such principles.
• Promote the zero-tolerance policy regarding corruption and ensure adherence to COOPI Code of Conduct and Anti-Fraud policy.
• This ToR shall be inclusive of any other task specifically assigned by the direct supervisor for what concerns the implementation of the program activities.

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Overall Responsibilities

• The Cash Base Transfer Officer will be responsible for efficiently implementing cash-based transfer assistance.
• He will also perform specialized and standardized cash and voucher interventions program-related processes and activities to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.

Main Duties / Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the GFD/CBT Team Lead, and in collaboration with the Deputy Project Manager, Project manager, and other collaborators of the projects and of the Base, he will:

• Facilitate community mobilization, meetings, and trainings before the redemption and cash out activities;
• Work with Food Management Committees to ensure COOPI and WFP receive feedback from the beneficiaries on the project, including information on complaints related to food quality and conduct of the vendors/agents.
• Sensitize the beneficiaries so that they are aware of project objectives, project modalities, entitlements, right to complain, complaint modalities and redemption/cash out days.
• Represent COOPI in the field with community leaders, local authorities, other humanitarian actors. Conduct regular meetings with such entities, prepare minutes for sharing with the GFD/CBT Team Lead /Deputy Project Manager.
• Work closely with community structures to follow up on implementation of cash transfers, by maintaining and/or expanding COOPI’s community outreach to ensure beneficiaries have one communication channel with the CBT team.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of the Field Monitors by ensuring their presence in the field, keeping track of their attendance, submitting accurate information for their payment at field level and providing instructions to them on the planned activities.
• Build the capacity of the CBT Field Monitors to ensure project quality, providing regular training/coaching.
• Ensure training /re-orientation of the vendors on e-voucher system(how it works,synchronization,handling includingthe safekeeping of e-voucher devices)
• Lead the market assessment to ascertain the market price and most profitable skills in the intervention locations.
• Coordinate post-distribution monitoring with the MEAL team.
• Coordinate and supervise the monitoring of monthly redemption and cash out activities: conduct market price monitoring, conduct vendors’ price monitoring, shop monitoring, ensure that beneficiaries receive their full entitlement and they are treated with dignity and not taken advantage of.
• Conduct monthly meetings with the vendors/agents to ensure that their activities are fully in compliance with WFP regulations, represent beneficiaries’ interests in such meetings.
• Daily reporting of beneficiaries served at the vendors shops during redemption to track progress and follow up on those pending.
• Timely reporting of any irregularities to the GFD/CBT Team Lead and the Deputy Project Manager.
• Conduct post distribution meetings with beneficiaries to collect feedback, follow up on their food security status.
• Prepare and submit weekly activity reports to the GFD/CBT Team Lead/Deputy Project Manager.
• Prepare and submit a monthly report on redemption/cash out activities to the GFD/CBT Team Lead/Deputy project Manager for their further compilation and sharing with the donor.
• Treat beneficiaries with dignity and apply COOPI’s Code of Ethics and Conduct, the UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in the field, including sensitizing Field Monitors and vendors/agents on such principles.

Undertake Cash and Voucher interventions at LGA level under the direction of the Food Security Coordinator

• Facilitate community mobilization, meetings and trainings during community led Cash activities;
• Work with traditional committees to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable IDPs and host communities and provide information to ensure accountability, fairness and transparency during implementation of activities.
• Work closely with community structures to follow up on implementation of conditional and unconditional cash transfers planned activities
• Support in the implementation of capacity building training for the target beneficiaries at the LGA level.
• Implement detailed work plan for FSL team at LGA level activities.

Collect information and data on food security at LGA level through surveys, assessments and regular post distribution monitoring of beneficiary households:

• Collect information to ensure that the surveillance of the cash transfer situation in the area of implementation of the program is achieving the expected result.
• Support the M&E team in analysis of beneficiary data collection through the various tools that the department uses.
• Participate in the registration and distribution of beneficiary ID cards and / vouchers.
• Support the preparation of documentation required for the implementation of field activities.

Mobilization and awareness raising about the organization, program objectives and activities to local authorities and the population, and act as a link between the organization and the beneficiaries (at LGA level):

• Implement sensitisation activities for targeted communities about Cash Transfer and strengthening livelihood restoration activities with support from SEMA, Extension workers, Community Volunteers, traditional leaders and other key stakeholders in feasible livelihood restoration activities at LGA level.
• Support in the verification of the beneficiaries to ensure the identification and selection of the most vulnerable population is verified before Cash transfer is made.
• Support the Supervisor in ensuring that targeting of beneficiaries to receive cash transfers is carried out in a transparent way and with active participation of women and minority members of communities.
• Facilitate good working relationship between government workers and target beneficiaries.
• Support the Supervisor to ensure that beneficiaries’ access to the provider guarantees protection and gender sensitivity in the field key activities

Work with program teams to ensure COOPI information on program activities is shared within LGAs and provide for beneficiary feedback in line with relevant guidelines and frameworks:

• Collaborate with government and humanitarian partners to ensure the smooth sharing of information in consultation with the GFD/CBT Team Lead /Deputy Project Manager

Capacity Development:

• Supervise, hire, and orient team members, as necessary.
• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
• Promote Accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback via regular performance reviews.
• Provide team members with information, tools, and other resources to improve performance and reach objectives.
• Contribute to country team-building efforts, help team members identify problem-solving options, and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.
• Identify any gaps or capacity needs within the team and ensure training and capacity building are incorporated into program planning.

Code of conduct and associated policies:

• Treat beneficiaries with dignity and apply COOPI’s Code of Ethics and Conduct, the UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in the field, including sensitizing Field Monitors and vendors/agents on such principles.
• Promote the zero-tolerance policy regarding corruption and ensure adherence to COOPI Code of Conduct and Anti-Fraud policy.
• This ToR shall be inclusive of any other task specifically assigned by the direct supervisor for what concerns the implementation of the program activities.

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Overall Responsibilities

• The Help Desk Assistant will provide support to the implementation, monitoring, and accountability of COOPI Multi-sectoral Programs in Northeast Nigeria across different donor-funded interventions.

Scope of the Position

• The Help Desk Assistant will provide support to multi-sectorial intervention towards IDPs in Yobe state Nigeria in the design, planning, monitoring, and evaluation of the program by managing complaint and feedback data and facilitating program implementation at the LGA level.
• Under the guidance and direct supervision of the M&E Officer, the Help Desk Assistant will be responsible for the collection and resolution of complaints in the field at the LGA level. He/She will ensure the accuracy of complaint registration and provision of feedback to beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries.
• The Help Desk Assistant will be responsible for data gathering, analysis, and reporting activities. He/She will assist in tracking the progress of key indicators and provide timely reports to the M&E Officer.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks
Under the direct supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and indirectly the Gender and Protection Officer, and in collaboration with other collaborators of the projects and of the Base, he/she will:

Complaints and Feedback Management:

• Be in charge of the registration of complaints received by beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries at the LGA level using established channels such as MODA and SUGAR CRM platforms.
• Actively participate in sensitization and information-sharing sessions for the beneficiaries and the communities related to their right to file complaints and receive feedback.
• Maintenance of an effective record and filing system for all complaints solved and pending issues, including correspondences and other related documents, for quick and easy reference.
• Report any issue that needs immediate action to the M&E Officer and follow up on the resolution of such issues.
• Provide counseling and sensitization to the targeted and non-targeted populations who come to file their complaints to ensure that they understand the program and the project targeting criteria.
• Be in charge of providing feedback to the complainants when complaints are resolved, with the support of the Community-based Project Management Committees.
• Treat beneficiaries with dignity and apply COOPI’s Code of Ethics and Conduct, the UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in the field.
• Work with program teams to ensure COOPI information on program activities is shared within LGAs and provide beneficiary feedback in line with relevant guidelines and frameworks.
• Collaborate with government and humanitarian partners to ensure the smooth sharing of information in consultation with the M&E Officer/MEAL Manager.
• Support the program team in facilitating the process of setting up an appropriate Complaint Response Mechanism at the Ward/ LGA level and handling complaints/ feedback.
• Actively participate in sensitization and information-sharing sessions for the beneficiaries and the communities related to their right to file complaints and receive feedback.
• Support translation of sensitization messages during outreach and SBCC activities with knowledge of the local language (Hausa, Fulani, and Kanuri).

Accountability and Learning:

• Provide regular feedback to complainants, ensuring they are informed about the status and outcome of their complaints in a transparent and respectful manner.
• Follow up with program teams and operations units to ensure swift and effective responses to issues raised by the community.
• Participate in periodic reviews of the CFM to assess its effectiveness and recommend areas for improvement based on feedback trends.

Communication and reporting:

• Presenting the weekly achievements, problems encountered, and any suggestions to improve the project implementation.
• Compile collected data and collect information from the team to present regular reports to the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer on the progress of activities, problems encountered, and the quality of relations with beneficiaries and propose actions to improve the projects.
• Pass on any information or problems to his direct and/or indirect supervisor concerning his task, COOPI programs, or safety aspects.

Additional job responsibilities:

• The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within the reasonableness level of skills and experience.

Skills and Technical Competencies:

• Excellent facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Strong coordination and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Ability to work independently and in a team under pressure.
• Commitment to gender, disability, and social inclusion principles.
• Proficiency in digital tools and mobile finance systems
• Be professional, motivated, flexible and culturally sensitive

Qualifications

• Degree / Diploma in Sociology, Economics, Rural Development, Development Studies, Statistics, Demography or related subject, with previous experience working in developmental projects
• 2 years working in INGO, 1 years of which should be in CRM/MEAL for FSL programming.

Essential:

• Be professional, motivated, flexible and culturally sensitive
• Experience in data collection, collation, analysis, and report writing
• Have excellent communication, writing and analytical skills.
• Be excellent in communication skills and proficient in report writing
• Be resident and familiar with the terrain in the Northeast Nigeria.
• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office programming (Access, Outlook, Excel, Power Point, and Word).
• Knowledge and experience in using database specific software.
• Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills.
• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams Preferred:
• Knowledge of the local language (Hausa and Kanuri).
• Proficient in data collection and handling bulk registers of beneficiaries.
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.

What We Offer

• A chance to contribute to transformative climate and peacebuilding initiatives.
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and learning.

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Scope of the Vacancy

• The M&E assistant will provide support to multi-sectorial intervention toward IDPs in NE Nigeria, in the design, planning, monitoring, and evaluation of the program by managing data including Complain and feedback management and facilitating program implementation at the LGA level, under the guidance and direct supervision of the Project and M&E Officers.
• The M&E Assistant will be responsible for monitoring data gathering, analysis, and reporting. She/he will assist in tracking the progress of key indicators and provide timely reports to the M&E Officer.
• He/she will also be responsible for the collection and resolution of complaints in the field. He/she will ensure the accuracy of complaint registration and provision of feedback to beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks

• Working under the supervision and guidance of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer, the MEAL Assistant will be based in Yobe State and any of the LGAs of implementation which are Yusufari, Yunusari, Fika, Fune, Nangere and Geidam.
• The MEAL Assistant will work closely with all program staff in the field to implement all MEAL commitments and improve program quality through enhanced data management systems and processes supporting WFP Project under activity I&II grant.
• The Assistant will support the MEAL officer in managing day-to-day MEAL tasks arising in the Field Office and providing technical support to field teams to ensure effective project implementation.

Under the direct supervision of the MEAL Officer, and in collaboration with other collaborators of the projects and of the Base, She/he will:

• Receive and maintain clean data source documents from field staff.
• Ensure proper filing and storage of MEAL documents, including CFM databases, questionnaires, monitoring reports, and datasets, among others.
• Actively participate in sensitization and information sharing sessions for the beneficiaries and the communities related to their right to file complaints and receive feedback.
• Maintenance of an effective record and filing system for all complaints solved and pending issues including correspondences and other related documents for quick and easy reference.
• Report any issue which needs immediate action to the MEAL Officer and follow up on the resolution of such issues.
• Support the program team in facilitating the process of setting up Complaint Response Mechanism at Ward/ LGA level and handling complaint/ feedback.
• Be in charge of providing feedback to the complainants when complaints are resolved, with the support of the Food Management Committees
• With support from the MEAL Officer, conduct capacity building and mentorship to field staff.
• Keep the MEAL and other CFM databases up-to-date and support program staff prepare periodic high quality reports.
• Assist program staff during survey planning and implementation, especially preparing needed logistics and participating in data collection and cleaning.
• Develop project monitoring and evaluation tools with support from M&E Officer and Project Lead.
• Maintain confidentiality and observe data protection and other associated guidelines.
• Support MEAL officer in the compilation of Monthly, Quarterly, Biannual, and annual reports by providing timely, accurate, and updated data.
• Support project teams to prepare activity reports and documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and assessment reports.
• In collaboration with the MEAL Officer, develop data templates to capture and store data in a mild form.
• Verify data by comparing it to source documents.
• Retrieve data from the database or electronic files as requested.
• Perform regular backups to ensure data preservation.
• Sort and organize paperwork after entering data to ensure it is not lost.
• Process data for use by, among other things, disaggregating by gender, age, or any additional description as required by end-users.
• Organize the transferred data into relevant formats and computer files or database systems using appropriate IT.
• Supervise staff and enumerators on data collection and handling.

Profile of the Candidate (Education, Training, Competences, Skills)
Minimum Requirements:

• Undergraduate Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Degree/Diploma in Sociology, Economics, Rural Development, Development Studies, Project Management, Statistics, Demographics, or any other relevant field.
• A minimum of 1 - 2 years of work experience and experience in M&E is preferred and with previous experience working in developmental projects
• At least 18 months in an NGO implementing resilience or livelihood projects.

Skills & Experience:
Essential:

• Fluency required (verbal and written), and the ability to read and write in English.
• Ability to manage, track and report on program data; proficiency with Excel in monitoring and analyzing data.
• Strong writing and communication skills, including familiarity with writing funder reports, SOPs, and other program management documents.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent critical thinking skills; ability to multitask.
• Knowledge of Electronic Data collection tools.
• Knowledge of the local language (Hausa and Kanuri).
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.

Salary
COOPI Salary grid (according to experience).